Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain

The Paris International Contemporary Art Fair (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain or FIAC) is a contemporary art event that occurs in Paris.

History
FIAC was usually held in October in the Grand Palais. In 2019, the fair announced that it would move to a temporary venue on the Champ de Mars, by the Eiffel Tower, for at least two years and to move back to the Grand Palais by 2024. In 2022, however, Art Basel surprisingly evinced FIAC from the Grand Palais.

From 2006 to 2019, as part of the fair’s outdoor program Hors les Murs, well-known venues across the city – the Tuileries Garden, the Musée national Eugène Delacroix, the National Museum of Natural History and Place Vendôme – featured temporary installations of Alexander Calder, George Condo, Thomas Houseago, Robert Indiana, Per Kirkeby, Alicja Kwade, Richard Long and Oscar Tuazon, among others. From 2018, the venues also included Place de la Concorde, with architectural works by Kengo Kuma, Claude Parent and Jean Prouvé, among others.

Milestones

 * 1974 – The first edition is held in the Gare de la Bastille
 * 1975 – The fair moves to the Grand Palais
 * 1982 – FIAC welcomes photography for the first time
 * 2001 – The fair welcomes video art for the first time
 * 2007 – FIAC and Artprice issue the first Annual Report on the Contemporary Art Market'', analyzing the sales of 500 artists
 * 2011 – FIAC starts to have an outside the walls part, in the Jardin des Plantes and the Jardin des Tuileries
 * 2014 – In parallel of FIAC, the first Foire OFF(ICIELLE) is launched with 68 emerging galleries at the City of Fashion and Design

Directors

 * 2003–present: Jennifer Flay

Marcel Duchamp Prize
The Marcel Duchamp Prize (in French : Prix Marcel Duchamp) is an annual award given to a young artist by the Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l'Art Français (ADIAF) since 2001 at the FIAC.

The winner receives €35,000 personally and up to €30,000 in order to produce an exhibition of their work in the Modern Art museum (Centre Georges Pompidou).

Controversy
In 2014, a Hors Les Murs feature, the 80-meter-high inflatable sculpture Tree by Paul McCarthy in the Place Vendôme was deflated by vandals. McCarthy and local authorities decided not to re-inflate it. The lime green sculpture was described by the artist as a Christmas tree, but critics said it looked like a butt plug.